Education
On June 22, 2002, Malaysia’s 76-year-old Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad dropped a political bombshell in the midst of the three day national conference of the ruling United Malays National Organisation (UMNO). One hour into his closing speech, Mr. Mahathir suddenly announced that he was immediately resigning all his party and government positions. He burst into […]
... written on Sep 09 2018The name Liew Chin Tong may not ring a bell among Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition ruling government, let alone 32-million Malaysians, before the 14th general election on May 9, 2018. But this was the guy who sent shivers down MCA (Malaysian Chinese Party) spine when he unexpectedly ventured into the lion’s den – Ayer Hitam, […]
... written on Jul 17 2018We have said this many times and we’ll say this again. There are two things that Malaysian Chinese treasure dearly – economy and education. Try taking one of them away and you are asking for trouble. Ex-PM Najib Razak, despite sucking up to President Xi Jinping and bragging about his son’s fluency in Chinese, didn’t […]
... written on Jul 13 2018Mahathir almost didn’t make it. The urbanites – regardless of ethnic-Chinese, ethnic-Malay or ethnic-Indian – understood ex-prime minister Najib Razak’s thievery in 1MDB scandal. There was little doubt that those educated urban people were anxious to vote Najib out. The rural people, especially the village Malay folks, however, didn’t understand one bit about 1MDB at […]
... written on Jun 27 2018Zero GST Today!! – These Graphics Show Why GST Was Disastrous To People But Loved By Najib Very Much
Effective today (June 1st), the highly unpopular GST (goods and services tax) is zero-rated from 6 percent. People are celebrating as suddenly everything has become 6% cheaper. From computer to Mercedes Benz, everybody wants to have a piece of the meat, before the new SST (sales and service tax) kicks in effective September 1st. […]
... written on Jun 01 2018Malaysian police on Monday released sketches of the two men suspected of assassinating Palestinian professor Fadi Mohammad al-Batsh in Setapak, Kuala Lumpur. The killers, obviously professionals, had rained a whopping 20 bullets and 14 of them hit the 35-year-old Palestinian. Mr. Fadi was heading to a mosque for dawn prayers before being gunned down. Footage […]
... written on Apr 24 2018Going into any market head on without learning about everything from how to spot opportunities to the best strategies to employ will likely result in disaster. That’s why it’s so important for any new investors to spend time an effort to learn trading and what is best practice, whether on the forex, stocks, commodities or […]
... written on Apr 19 2018Wan Ahmad Najmuddin Mohd is one of Malaysian top police chiefs. He’s the director of CID (Criminal Investigation Department) in charge of 11 branches – from internal affairs to secret societies to Interpol. Naturally, CID is one of the most powerful departments in the Royal Malaysia Police force, not to mention extremely profitable if the […]
... written on Mar 09 2018Oracle of Omaha – Warren Buffett – has just released his 2017 annual letter to shareholders. As usual, his flagship Berkshire Hathaway’s stock portfolio was the hot commodity that everyone has been waiting for. According to the letter, the company had stock holdings totalling a staggering US$170.5 billion in market value as of end of […]
... written on Feb 26 2018Hollywood films often justify that as the leader of the free world – democracy – the United States can basically do anything, including staging an invasion on foreign nations which do not subscribe to American version of democracy. However, if the latest report from the Economist Intelligence Unit is any indicator, the U.S. isn’t even […]
... written on Feb 01 2018